Fedor Toshchev
Having nostalgia as a starting point to his research Fedor investigates the treatment of personal history and influence of collective memory upon individuals within the context of post Soviet Russia. Restorative mania of the nineties and more recent turns in the political course of the country caused him to examine reappropriation of symbols from the past and reconstruction of national identity. His approach to the subject includes observation of the landscape and derelict villages along Russia's "Mother-river" Volga where he collects abandoned family photo archives to later articulate found personal histories as valid alternatives to the unstable official history that has silenced individual memory.
Ksenia Burnasheva • Berta De la Rosa • Shirin Fathi • Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari • Sam Taylor • Fedor Toshchev • Nikolas Ventourakis •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Fine Art
London College of Communication
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
University of Wales, Newport
MA/MFA Documentary Photography
University of Sunderland
MA Photography
University of Ulster
MFA Photography